make up for lost time

Meaning

1. Oxford100% of films

   to do sth quickly or very often because you wish you had started doing it sooner

   We make up for lost time.

In the movies · 2

• Miles is making up for lost time.The Ghost and Mrs. Muir1947
• We make up for lost time.Scarface1932
• Um, make up for lost time, I suppose.The Royal Tenenbaums2001
• We'll see if we can't make up lost time.Red Eye2005

Learn it in full scenes

• The Ghost and Mrs. Muir1947
  • Lucy Leaves Her In-Laws' House
  • Lucy Insists on Gull Cottage
  • Lucy Rents the Haunted House

From the same entry

• all is not lost
• be lost for words
• be lost in
• be lost on
• be lost to the world
• get lost
• give up for lost
• there's little love lost between A and B
• lose it
• lose yourself in
• lose out
• lose out to